{"id":246064,"date":"2025-11-05T21:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246064\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:49:12","slug":"murder-arrests-after-child-killer-kyle-bevan-found-dead-at-hmp-wakefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246064\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder arrests after child killer Kyle Bevan found dead at HMP Wakefield"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Spereall & Tom AireyYorkshire<\/p>\n

\"Dyfed-PowysDyfed-Powys Police<\/p>\n

Kyle Bevan was jailed for murdering two-year-old Lola James in 2020<\/p>\n

Three inmates have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a child killer was found dead at a West Yorkshire prison. <\/p>\n

Officers were called to HMP Wakefield at 08:25 GMT on Wednesday following reports of a man being found dead in his cell, West Yorkshire Police said. <\/p>\n

The Prison Service confirmed the man was 33-year-old Kyle Bevan, who was jailed for life for murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter Lola James in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in 2020.<\/p>\n

The force said his death at the high-security jail was being treated as “suspicious”, with investigations continuing to establish the full circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n

“Three men, who are all serving prisoners, have been arrested on suspicion of murder,” a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

Bevan inflicted “catastrophic” brain injuries on the toddler in a “brutal” assault in her family home, his sentencing hearing in 2023 was told.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lola was attacked on the night between 16 and 17 July 2020 while she was in Bevan’s care, and was left with 101 surface injuries on her body.<\/p>\n

Judge Mr Justice Martin Griffiths described Bevan’s actions as “an assertion of superiority over the only person he could feel superior to \u2013 a helpless child”.<\/p>\n

\"FamilyFamily photo<\/p>\n

Lola James was descibed in court as “happy” and “beautiful”<\/p>\n

Bevan, from Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, was ordered to serve at least 28 years in jail.<\/p>\n

Sinead James, Lola’s mother, was sentenced to six years for causing or allowing her daughter’s death at her home.<\/p>\n

The incident at the prison comes less than a month after the death of the paedophile singer Ian Watkins, who was fatally stabbed<\/a> at the same facility on 11 October.<\/p>\n

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “HMP Wakefield prisoner Kyle Bevan’s death was confirmed on 5 November.<\/p>\n

“We are unable to comment further while the police investigate.”<\/p>\n

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The incident comes less than a month after the death of paedophile singer Ian Watkins at the high-security jail<\/p>\n

In September, an inspection report found levels of violence at HMP Wakefield had increased.<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking at the time, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said it had “taken further action in high-security prisons such as Wakefield to reduce violence”.<\/p>\n

Andrea Coomber, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said HMP Wakefield was under similar pressures to other prisons but was “insulated” due to its status. <\/p>\n

“Because it is of a higher security clearance, it actually has more guarantees of staffing and resource than lots of other jails have,” she said.<\/p>\n

“So in some ways, Wakefield should actually be doing better and be safer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Spereall & Tom AireyYorkshire Dyfed-Powys Police Kyle Bevan was jailed for murdering two-year-old Lola James in 2020…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-246064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}